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Amazon Derangement Syndrome. Based on the religious conviction that Amazon sells everything below cost (because Bezos is eeeevile!), they believe that it is Amazon’s fault that six companies conspired to break multiple laws and ripoff Amazon. Note that in Apple’s appeal, they are *still* trying to get even more Amazon documents into evidence as if anything Amazon may or not have done has any bearing on the well-documented deeds of Apple’s executives. It is all part of a concerted spin campaign: since the facts are against them and the law is against them, they are resorting to a campaign of impugning the integrity of the judge. Which will be as effective as the “blame Amazon” defense was at trial.

Oh, I didn’t forget either of those and I agree, that these attempts to impugn the integrity of the judge will get them nowhere.

I just find it really sad that someone who is supposed to be covering a trial, i.e. educating his readers, could not see beyond the RDF and ADS. If a site has a name with mac or apple in it, I would expect they might be blind to the facts of the case but a reporter/editor for Forbes? PE-D should have put his editorial bits in a separate column or Forbes should have had someone else do the reporting. I think the way this was handled calls into question the accuracy of any reporting done.